Despite his historic run of success in the city of Detroit, as the General Manager of the Detroit Tigers, Dave Dombrowski was consistently hampered by a curiously negligent approach towards building a bullpen.
Whether he saw Torii Hunter fly over the right-field wall at Fenway, or Delmon Young clear the bases in Baltimore, Dombrowski’s unwillingness to truly address his relief options would not waver.
If Al Avila, Dombrowski’s successor, hopes to avoid the mistakes his predecessor made, and help Detroit return to American League prominence, he must make the bullpen a staple of the team’s identity with names such as these: